Lamp shade



Y. NOGUCHI LAMP SHADE May 13 1924.

Filed Aug. 15. '1921 f/VVENTR j' 7 BY A Patented May 13, 1924.

YEIKICHI NOGUCHI, 0F BONITO-KU, TOKYO, JAPAN.

LAMP SHADE.

Application led August 15, 1921. Serial No. 492,332.

To all wlw/mJ it may concern:

Be it known that I, YEIKICHI NoGUoHI, a subject of the Emperor of Japan, and a resident of No. 2 Nagakuracho, Honjo-Ku, Tokyo, Empire of Japan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lamp Shades, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in shades or reiiectors on electric light or similar fittings and has for its object to provide a shade which will be simple in construction, durable and strong, easy to handle, free from breakage, and at once economical by the employment of cheap material, the koyori (Japanese paper twisted into yarn).

Further object of the invention is to provide a shade which will be adjustable by simple manipulation to suit the rooms of various sizes.

To this end I have chosen, as an essential base, the material commonly known as koyori which I believe to be the goods worked by no nation other than Japanese, and which material after being plaited and shaped to a blank of usual truncated formation of shade will be essentially re-inforced at its outer peripheral edge with a iiexible wire ring so as to provide upon the surface of the said blank a plurality of radially extending and alternately rising and depressing spaces which are broken by circumferentially extending stepped corrugations, as will appear later.

Fig. l is a plan of the shade according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the shade holder.

Now referring to the drawing the numeral 1 designates the blank of the shade, essentially made of plaited koyori or Japanese paper string. 2 is a corrugated flexible wire ring which is placed along the outer rim or circumferential edge of the said blank, so

as to provide upon the surface of the shade a number of radially extending rising and depressing spaces which correspond to the number of the corrugations of the wire ring 2.

The invention is also contemplated to provide upon the surface of the shade a number of circumferentially extending corrugations, and in the drawing I have shown such corrugations in three stepped relations, as at 5.

The shade holder may comprise a flat ring or collar 4 stamped of any suitable metal of desired thickness and having on its surface a plurality of tongues 3 stamped at right angles to the collar to act as rivets in engagement with the socket of the lamp, pawl 6 being provided for the purpose at the end of each tongue as clearly shown in Figure 3.

The inner surface of the shade, if desired, may be coated with suitable reflecting paint while the outer surface thereof may be finished with any desired ornamental coating.

It will be observed that in view of the yielding character of koyori I am enabled to either expand or contract the size of the shade by simply manipulating upon oradjusting with the corrugation of the ring wire 2 so as to suit apartments of various sizes.

In some instance I may choose cotton cloth lined with paper in place of the plaited koyori above referred to.

What I claim is A. shade of the class described made of pliable fabric, having radial corrugations and annular corrugations in its inner and outer sides and also having a reinforcing wire around which the outer edge of the shade is gathered.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

YEIKICHI NOGUCI-II.

Witnesses:

EDWARD C. WYNNE, HARUTADA YASUMARA. 

